Happy New Year

Any one made any resolutions? It is amazing how short lived they can be isn't it! We've all seen how busy gyms are in January, only to be virtually empty a mere 6 weeks later.

A colleague said to me recently that they couldn't see the point in a specific fitness goal such as running a marathon or reaching a certain weight if we weren't prepared to create a lifestyle that incorporated that for the rest of their lives. He felt that if it wasn't a long term commitment to be fit by exercising at least twice a week for example then why bother? I found this really interesting as someone who has a tendency to exercise in bursts of enthusiasm, followed by troughs of apathy. If the purpose of my exercise is to deliver a sustainably healthy body then regular moderate exercise has to be better than 3 steps forward and 3 steps back.

Leadership is the same, it is not enough for us to focus on our people just around the times of objective setting, annual reviews or poor performance. If the purpose of being a leader is to deliver sustainable high performance then we need to spend regular, quality time with our people all year round to achieve this.